“The 11thCOACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
will feature a mix of artists ranging from Pavement, Thom Yorke????,
Vampire Weekend, Them Crooked Vultures, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix,
Tisto, Faith No More, Deadmau5, David Guetta, MGMT and Public Image
Limited. Set for Friday, April 16, Saturday, April 17 and Sunday,
April 18 at the beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA–the same
grounds where COACHELLA debuted in 1999–the COACHELLA 2010 line-up
will feature more than 130 acts.

This
year’s COACHELLA will feature a variety of options to make the concert
experience an enjoyable one. In addition to expanded camping
options–including car, RV and traditional tent camping– COACHELLA
will allow, for the first time, in-and-out privileges for all
attendees. Festival goers will once again have the ability to
purchase 3-day festival tickets and various onsite camping options via
an easy layaway payment plan.

For
those looking to streamline the weekend’s experience, COACHELLA has
teamed with Valley Music Travel to provide exclusive travel packages,
local hotel shuttle transportation and private home rentals with VIP
COACHELLA access. For more information and to purchase tickets, please
visit www.valleymusictravel.com/coachella.php.

Tickets for COACHELLA go on sale Friday, January 22 at 10:00 AM at all Ticketmaster locations and www.coachella.com.
Three-day weekend passes are $269.00, plus surcharges. More details on
layaway, camping options and up-to-the minute information, can be found
at www.coachella.com. COACHELLA 2010 sponsors include Heineken and PlayStation.

“Long Island-based veteran rock band Taking Back Sunday are performing one of their last North American shows before departing for their Australian New Again tour. New Again is the group’s fourth studio album. Released in June, 2009, to generally favorable reviews, the album debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200, selling 48,000 copies in its first week in the United States.

2010 Grammy Nominee The Crystal Method are sure to incite the audience with a storiedlive experience. The electronic music duo received the Grammy nod for Divided by Night inthe Best Electronic/Dance Album category. The festival also features electro dance musicby Montreal-born DJ and turntablist A-Trak and UC Santa Barbara Alumnus, DJ/producerSteve Aoki.

With a strong rock cast, the festival also features Australian-formed indie group SickPuppies and the Los Angeles-based alternative band Shiny Toy Guns. Hip-hop gets unusualcoverage with budding rap artists New Boyz (note: they went to school in Victorville) and the Asian American group Far*East Movement.”

Owl City, known for the Fireflies song, will perform April 7 at the Fox Theater in Pomona. General onsale starts at 10 a.m. Friday. From the band’s MySpace, it looks like tickets have sold out at a lot of venues so don’t hesitate.

Vampire Weekend, who are streaming their latest album “Contra” for free on their MySpace page before their album is released on Jan. 12, will perform in Pomona.

The date, according to their MySpace page, is April 14 and they will be at the Fox Theater.

Tickets go onsale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday but a Vampire Weekend presale started at 10 a.m. Wednesday and continues through 10 p.m. Thursday, according to Ticketmaster. The performance time is 8 p.m. and tickets are $25.

Ticketmaster also has an offer where there is an option to add a copy of their new album (on CD or vinyl) for $15 extra that includes three digital tracks: the Contra “Megamelt” (2 MP3s) and “Cousinz” remixes by Toy Selecta and the album version of “Cousins.”